Those who have a college degree in the U.S. have a significant earning-power advantage over those who don’t, but an overwhelming number of graduates find themselves saddled with debt they accumulated ...

Last week the for-profit behemoth University of Phoenix said it would close 115 locations. The move comes on the heels of a late September decision by Kaplan Higher Education to stop new enrollment at ...

The Education Department has said that if only 45 percent of your graduates are repaying their loans, that's okay. But what we found out on Friday is that for-profit colleges overall only have a 36 ...

As recently as 2015, the University of Phoenix enrolled more than 400,000 learners, making it not only the center of the for-profit higher education universe but the biggest university in the United ...

For-profit higher education is a large, complex system of institutions, and its explosive growth over the last decade has made it a prominent force in shaping higher-education policy and practice. How ...

One now-closed Kansas City school isn’t representative of all these institutions, which are a better fit for some young people to learn. Getty Images The last four years of the Biden administration ...

Thanks to sustainable student growth trends over the next two years as enrollment in career-oriented alternatives like trade schools and vocational programs gain in popularity (over traditional ...

Increasing numbers of for-profit service providers have begun to enter the education sector, performing tasks from collecting and analyzing standardized test data to providing tutoring and bus ...

WHY IS “FOR-PROFIT” SUCH A BAD WORD IN EDUCATION? Call me crazy, but I thought making a profit was one of the most important things that a good business needed to do. Just because you run a business ...

As the number of for-profit educational institutions in the United States continues to grow, so does their presence and influence in Washington. For-profit institutions derive much of their funding ...